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Except they aren't getting paid a million bucks. College football (and even high school football) account for a very large slice of all football revenue. NCAA
by Bud 9y ago
Except they aren't getting paid a million bucks.
College football (and even high school football) account for a very large slice of all football revenue. NCAA football is a multi-billion-dollar business.
Those athletes are spending 50% or even more than 50% of their entire productive football careers playing college ball, they are incurring a very high risk for permanent brain injury, and they are NOT getting paid. (Do these figures sound off? Go look up the average career length of NFL running backs.)
Yes, yes, they get a "free education", but many or most of these guys aren't actually well-suited to college-level academic work anyway, and a college degree isn't of as much use if you die at 40 (or commit suicide in your late 20s) from horrific brain injuries.
They should be getting paid. Bigtime. Paid a lot. Everyone else involved with college football is getting paid; just not the players, the ones who are taking all the risk and doing all the real work.
- cmurf 9y agoSure, and the excuse here will be "but they will get an instant pay out on day 1 when they're finished with school and get a contract!" There is no possible rational conversation you can have with a fan of college football about the disproportionate blood sucking they're responsible for. These spectators are parasites. Conversing with them rationally is just as likely as conversing with a tick. They're ignorant. They don't care, they don't want to care. Addition: And paying them big time doesn't make it right. That's just more gladiator mentality. The idea of affixing them with more glory makes their sacrifice, and lifelong injuries OK, because they're being fairly compensated for it. Don't fix the sport, don't become less violent, no one change anything except pay the gladiators better.
- Bud 9y agoWhich is of course hilarious bullshit, since a tiny percentage of college players ever see dollar one of NFL money. I agree that paying them would not make this right, but it'd be better than cynically killing them all at age 40, disabling their brains in their mid 20s if not earlier, and never paying them anything at all. Paying them their real market value would at least help.